“There are two sorts of ill-breeding”

— John Locke , book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 141
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding: the one a sheepish bashfulness, and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others.

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English philosopher and physician 1632–1704

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